Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the performance of several existing structural decomposition methods on fully interlocked Crossword Puzzle Problems (CPPs) and draw directio...
We address the new problem of puzzle layout as a new application of awing. We present two abstract models of puzzles, permutation puzzles and cyclic puzzles, which can be modeled a...
Manyproblems,such as the sliding-tile puzzles, generate searchtrees wheredifferent nodeshavedifferent numbersof children, in this case dependingon the position of the blank. Wesho...
This paper gives some global and uniform convergence estimates for a class of subspace correction (based on space decomposition) iterative methods applied to some unconstrained con...
The Shifting Bottleneck (SB) heuristic is among the most successful approximation methods for solving the Job Shop problem. It is essentially a machine based decomposition procedu...